The ‘Kind of’ Weekly Recap (July 24th-August 13th)

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Been busy again, but I have been around doing stuff for the Community. With that said, this was one of the busiest periods for us as far as giveaways goes, as you will see in the Community News tab. Currently, we have two giveaways happening with another one starting tomorrow. You can quickly access them by clicking on contest banners between post and at the top of articles.

We’ve had a number of reviews for you to check out as well, with a few of them happening in conjunction with a giveaway. Thanks goes out to all those PR people for providing us with content! It is much appreciated! I guess Oly gets some credit, too, but we all know people will only associate with Oly because it gets them closer to me :P. I kid.

With that said, EdEN and Cheeto need to settle down with the posting. Especially EdEN and his tyrannical posts about how a 3DS price drop is throwing the gauntlet against the Vita, and how it’s a better system than the Vita, blah blah blah. I don’t know how he got a staff position. Heck, he still hasn’t changed his name to his first name to continue on with site tradition :P. At least Eddie has been putting him in his place. Too bad EdEN doesn’t stay there for even 5 minutes before he starts again.

Anyway, be sure to check out the rest! Quite a few articles to go through in case you missed anything!

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It’s been a really busy past three weeks. One of the biggest things is definitely the giveaways, which you can read about in the section below. As far as Community news itself goes, Tosh has unveiled the new and improved giveaway/lottery system. It not only makes it easier for us to track entries, but also makes it easier for you to enter the contest as well.

Yesterday, Tosh also gave me more permissions for running the forums, so I took the liberty of beginning the process of improving the forums. For the most part, the forums are now categorized satisfactorily, but we’re still in the process of moving old topics to their new locations.

Alright, giveaways! First of all, we had a winner for the Tekken blu-ray.

The day before the winner of that was announced, we started a giveaway for PSN imports for Yakiniku Bugyou and Rapid Angel, where, later, everyone who entered had won. In fact, you can ask Oly if there are any extra codes left since the number of entries was less than the number of available codes…

Anyway, Eddie did a short giveaway for a Resistance 3 beta code, here you can see who won here.

Of course, it didn’t end there. Currently, we have 2 more giveaways going on, including the PSN title Dead Block and a piece of hardware that makes a wired connection through your house’s electrical circuit, the HP200AV.

We’re still not done yet, though. In fact, we had to make a couple more “lottery” accounts to allow for more giveaways, with the third account being used for a giveaway you will see go live tomorrow, so stick around! There is a lot of free stuff you can win! Also, Tosh’s E3 swag giveaway has ended, but items will be shipped soon!

Since the last recap, we had to delay the GT5 tournament to July 31st, at which point, only Dean and Pedro showed up. Although it was just us three, we still had a bit of fun! We just didn’t run it as intended and basically just turned it into a game night, but that’s okay. Here’s hoping we can do it again some other time.

Pretty interesting results, really. Almost half of the people who voted said that a deep, engaging story is most important for future titles, where, despite being 10 votes behind, innovative gameplay took second. Sequels and prequels got a few votes, but tried and true formulas and controversial subject matter both struck out with one vote.

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This new poll idea comes from mowmow, who will receive 200 points for the idea. With that said, the poll asks what interests you most in a collector’s edition of a game. I believe we’ve had one of these in the past, but I suppose it can’t hurt to run a new one.

Man, what a week … I still have to play more Resistance 3 beta, sharpen my skills in Medal of Honor with Ace (as Battlefield 3 beta is almost here), Ranking up in Killzone 3, Playing Driver: San Francisco Demo none-stop, growing my own beard hoping that someday It would be as glorious as Jay’s, laughing over disturbing images sent by Oly, oh and Limbo is over, what a fun ride that was, thankful to the giveaway this great site provided. I am just glad that I have the opportunity to be a part of this great community.